when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy

There is sanctity in knowing, being, wanting, feeling all of everything for you.

There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.

He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon

I don't like to give out advice. I make suggestions when I get to know somebody a little bit, but I don't know about advice.

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.